The racismIt is now everywhere. Also in the Copa Libertadores U20, which involves youth teams of South America. The Palmeiras striker Luighi Hanri was interviewed by the television broadcaster Sport TV. When the journalist asked him for a comment on the match, the footballer, with tears in his eyes and full of anger, replied: “Are you serious at the moment? Don’t you ask me about the act of racism towards me? As long as we face the topic? As long as? What? What made me today is a crime. Do you really ask me about the game? What will the Conmebol do about it? And the Federation? You wouldn’t have asked me, but what I suffered was a crime. We are youth players, we are still learning and then this happens.”
Luighi: “It hurts the soul, but we continue to fight”
Luighi Hanri, number 9 of Verdão (Verdone), also launched a message on social media in this regard: “It hurts the soul. And it is the same pain that all blacks have experienced throughout history, because things evolve, but they are never 100%resolved. Today’s episode leaves scars and must be seen for what it is: a crime. Until? This is the question that I hope we will not have to ask ourselves sooner or later. For now, we continue to fight ✊🏿”.
Palmeiras: “What happened is unacceptable”
Also the Palmeiras, on Instagramcommented on the episode that involved his young striker: “It is unacceptable that, once again, a Brazilian club must deplore a criminal act of racism that took place during the matches of the Conmebol competitions. The Sociedade Exportiva Palmeiras expresses its solidarity with the club players who are playing the Libertadores Under-20 tournament in Paraguay and announces that it will do everything to ensure that all those who have been involved in this disgusted episode of Discrimination are duly punished.
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